Localising semantic and syntactic processing in spoken and written language comprehension: An Activation Likelihood Estimation meta-analysis

Brain and Language

Volumn 141, Issue , 2015, Pages 89-102

  Rodd, Jennifer M ^a   Vitello, Sylvia ^a   Woollams, Anna M ^b   Adank, Patti ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FMRI; Meta analysis; Methodology; Neuroimaging; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION METHOD; ANTERIOR LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONNECTOME; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PARS OPERCULARIS; POSTERIOR LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; WRITTEN LANGUAGE; BRAIN; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WRITING;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; WRITING;

EID: 84920896541     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.11.012     Document Type: Article

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